Nicholas Ray
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
The teen-aged son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums. Before the feature are three Behind the Cameras segments from the Warner Bros. Presents TV series, including a "safe-driving" interview withdrawn from airing following Dean's death.
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In 1979, Wim Wenders traveled to New York City to make a film with legendary director Nicholas Ray. As Ray lays dying of cancer, he reflects on his life and career. The resulting film tells a moving story both about friendship and a life in cinema.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
We can't go home again: a complete restoration of legendary director Nicholas Ray's 1973 experimental masterpiece, made with his college students in upstate New York. It embodies Ray's approach to filmmaking as a communal way of life. The film records Ray's groundbreaking use of multiple image as a way of telling more than one story simultaneously, and of colorization as a way to heighten emotional expression. He called it a 'journalistic' film, one...
Series
Criterion collection ; 810
Language
English
Formats
Description
A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele who has a history of violent behavior becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor who is attracted to him lies to the police providing them...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Jim Stark, a new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens, is still reverberating 50 years later. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers." --
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
In one of moviedom's most influential roles, James Dean is Jim, the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens and echoes 40 years later. Before the feature are three Behind-the-Cameras segments from the Warner Bros. Presents TV series about Rebel Without a Cause. A documentary segment exclusive to this Warner Bros. Classics edition contains recently recovered screen tests and outtakes that show intriguing...
Series
Criterion collection ; 507
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
10) Johnny Guitar
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Saloon owner Vienna battles the local townspeople headed by Emma, the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Johnny Logan is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Vienna and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Ray's epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time. The women are far tougher than the men and some saw a bizarre...
11) The lusty men
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
'Never was a bronc that couldn't be rode. Never was a cowboy that couldn't be throwed.' Spinning tales of big money made as a bronco buster, an ex-rodeo star wanders nto the life of ranch hand Wes Merritt. Wes is won over, despite the protests of his wife, who, against her judgment, feels drawn to the stranger, too.
13) Bitter victory
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©1957.
Language
English
Description
Captain Leith and Major Brand are a pair of British Army officers assigned to execute a daring commando raid on the Libyan stronghold of General Rommel. Once the mission is underway, Leith must save the day when Brand's cowardice is revealed, thus putting the mission and the lives of the men in jeopardy. As they struggle through the wastes of the Sahara we learn who will live, who will die and what is the price of glory.
Series
Criterion collection ; 793
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young picture framer thinks that he has terminal disease and is set up to become a hired assassin in West Germany because of the lure of quick money.
16) Johnny Guitar
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Joan Crawford is a saloon owner battling the local townspeople headed by Emma (Mercedes Cambridge), the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Sterling Hayden is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Crawford and has been offered a job in her saloon.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
They were expendable: Two PT-boat skippers defend the Philippines and give the U.S. war effort time to regroup after the crippling losses at Pearl Harbor. Flying Leathernecks: An embattled Marine fighter squadron VMF 247 at Guadalcanal is led by John Wayne and campaigning to coordinate ground combat with low-flying aerial sorties.